03151oam 22005654a 450 991048755140332120230621140121.00-8101-3742-9(CKB)4100000005115352(MiAaPQ)EBC5403737(OCoLC)1039689908(MdBmJHUP)muse66136(ScCtBLL)034d2c8e-9218-42fe-b6c2-378d022e8ddf(EXLCZ)99410000000511535220180424d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Unfinished Art of TheaterAvant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil /Sarah J. TownsendEvanston, Illinois :Northwestern University Press,2018.©2018.1 online resource (313 pages)Performance works"The Unfinished Art of Theater began as a dissertation written at New York University."0-8101-3740-2 0-8101-3741-0 Introduction: The uneven stage of the avant-gardes -- Mexico -- Rehearsals of the tragi-co(s)mic race -- Primitivist accumulation and Teatro sintetico -- Radio/puppets, or the institutionalization of a (media) revolution -- Brazil -- Parsifal on the periphery of capitalism -- Phonography, operatic ethnography, and other bad arts -- Total theater and missing pieces -- Postscript: Loose ends.The avant-garde posits the possibility of total rupture with the past. This book pulls back on this futuristic impulse by showing how theater became a key site for artists on the edge of capitalism to reconfigure the role of the aesthetic between 1917 and 1934. The book argues that this "unfinished art"-because of its weakness as a representative institution in Mexico and Brazil, where the bourgeois stage had not yet coalesced-was at the forefront of struggles to redefine the relationship between art and social change. Drawing on archival research, Townsend reveals the importance of avant-garde projects that belie the rhetoric of rupture and immediacy: ethnographic operas, populist puppet plays, children's radio programs, a philosophical drama about the birth of a new race, and an antifascist spectacle written for a theater shut down by the police. The book argues that avant-garde art is tied to the experience of dependency, delay, and the uneven development of capitalism.Performance works.Avant-garde (Aesthetics)Theater and societyBrazilTheater and societyMexicoExperimental theaterBrazilExperimental theaterMexicoElectronic books. Avant-garde (Aesthetics)Theater and societyTheater and societyExperimental theaterExperimental theater792.0972Townsend Sarah J.871097MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910487551403321The Unfinished Art of Theater1944558UNINA